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intersectionality

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  • noun A feminist sociological methodology of studying the relationships among multiple dimensions and modalities of social relationships and subject formations.

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Examples

  • One result of this intersectionality is that transsexual people form a very diverse group with as many differences as similarities.

    A rose by any other name 2008

  • One result of this intersectionality is that transsexual people form a very diverse group with as many differences as similarities.

    She ain’t heavy, she’s my sister 2008

  • I think that there are a few blogs out there, mostly mainstream and mainstream-accepted blogs that throw the word intersectionality around a few times, but never really divulge anything else.

    Holly Of Menstrual Poetry Shares Some Wisdom Renee 2009

  • I think that there are a few blogs out there, mostly mainstream and mainstream-accepted blogs that throw the word intersectionality around a few times, but never really divulge anything else.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Renee 2009

  • I can stand here from Feministing and yell until I am blue in the face until a mainstream outlet can utter the word intersectionality or at least recognize the problematic history that feminism has had with marginalized groups, instead of dominating the dialogue and fusing together once again, "white," with "woman" and therefore with "feminism," but somethings gotta give.

    Feministing Samhita 2010

  • I also got into what I later learned was called the intersectionality between women's rights and other social justice issues but saw as an important part of the equality my parents taught me was important: standing up for my friends who were out or who coped, as best they could, with being people of color in a very majority-white and sometimes unfriendly environment.

    Megan Carpentier: A Feminist's U-Turn: A Torrid Tale of Disappointment and Discovery 2010

  • Also Friedan-related are the discussions about so-called intersectionality - how to address gender imparity at the same time that we consider racial, ethnic, sexual and class injustices.

    NYT > Home Page By JENNIFER B. MCDONALD 2011

  • (The people responsible for my being able to articulate this statement are far too numerous to mention, but in particular at this moment, I want to thank Ricky Sherover-Marcuse who invented "intersectionality" as an activism tool before it was taken over by the academy; the revolutionary poetic voice of Judy Grahn; and the writing of Denise Thompson and her choice to define feminism.)

    Morning Manifesto 2010

  • (The people responsible for my being able to articulate this statement are far too numerous to mention, but in particular at this moment, I want to thank Ricky Sherover-Marcuse who invented "intersectionality" as an activism tool before it was taken over by the academy; the revolutionary poetic voice of Judy Grahn; and the writing of Denise Thompson and her choice to define feminism.)

    Archive 2010-06-01 2010

  • Growing up where I did also means that I have not a lot of patience for creative interpretation of terms that Black women feminists and womanists developed, like 'intersectionality', that ignore how even people in the communities where these terms came from had massive disagreements on theory, practice, activism, and how to actually create social change.

    bluenefertiti nantahala 2009

  • Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989 to describe how systems of oppression overlap to create distinct experiences for people with multiple identity categories.

    Kimberlé Crenshaw's Intersectional Feminism | JSTOR Daily Allison Miller 2020

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